On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:20:58AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 05:09:53PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: [...] > > sorry for being so pedantic. Today a bug has been submitted (#253616) > > regarding this issue. The submitter states that the control file for > > xfree86 states xserver-xfree86 is > > Architecture: alpha amd64 arm hppa hurd-i386 i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel > > netbsd-i386 powerpc sh3 sh4 sparc > > > but xserver-xfree86 is only available on alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k > > mips mipsel powerpc sparc [1] > > > so removing only s390 from the Architecture field of > > xfree86-driver-synaptics may not be enough, right? So the correct > > solution would be to only Suggest: xserver-xfree86 (>> 4.1.0) > > No, the correct solution is to ensure the xfree86-driver-synaptics > package isn't built on architectures where it's known to be useless. I understand this. [...] > The other architectures in the xfree86 control file can be ignored -- > they don't have autobuilders that are uploading to the archive. ok. My question was mainly due to the fact that I wasn't aware of the fact that some architectures are ignored. I was worried by the fact a missing xserver-xfree86 on let's say amd64 would raise the same problem I'm having here with s390. I hope I've been clearer, thanks :) -- mattia :wq!
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